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Church Model , 11th–13th century, Armenian.  source + moreinfo

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Developing a Church Model

In recent times, two models for building church congregations have become extremely popular: the Willow Creek Church model and the Saddleback Church model. The Willow Creek Church model relies on the seeker-sensitive method of gathering feedback from respondents to design church programs. Bill Hybels, the church's founder, conducted extensive surveys before starting the church. In his surveys, he asked church attendees about their expectations and problems with churches, in general. Subsequently, he condensed their responses into four main points that encapsulated the reasons why people were staying away from churches. These four points formed Hybels’ basis for reinventing the church-going experience at Willow Creek. Quite often, the Willow Creek Church model involves the use of experimental methods and techniques to make the church experience relevant and useful to attendees. For example, alternate communication mediums and contemporary references are used to create a connection with attendees. The Saddleback model of church building emphasizes and clarifies a church's purpose in a community, and all activities exist to serve that purpose. This model was developed by Rick Warren, founder and senior pastor at the California-based church. According to Warren, a church exists to fulfill five unique purposes: fellowship, discipleship, worship, ministry, and evangelism. All activities at a church must be directed at achieving these purposes. Nearly 200,000 pastors have been trained in the Saddleback model since 1980. About the Author: Pastor John Wagner is a Texas-based pastor with many years of experience building church communities.

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So I've been using the google sketchup program to make builds for my Duality round so my backgrounds look nicer and more uniform.

Just built a church, it took me like an hour and a half, two hours tops.

It's the biggest exterior thing I've built so far and it looks fucking nice so I'm gonna show it off.

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Can we be the church of the New Testament? Yes, if we hold fast the NT pattern of sound words

Continual shelling during the First World War reduced the countryside in West Flanders, Belgium to a sea of mud. More than a million men died.

The beautiful Weaver’s Guild-Hall at Ieper, built in the 12th century, was reduced to rubble. After the war, the British wanted to leave the whole city of Ieper in ruins as a memorial to the war! Understandably, the people of Ieper thought otherwise! Some wanted to replace the Guild Hall with a modern structure. But city architect Jules Coomans insisted that the Weaver’s Hall be rebuilt.

And with the help of fellow architect, P.A. Pauwels, the building was restored to its original grandeur. When the restoration was complete in 1959, the building looked exactly as it did before. This was possible because they used the original building plans and the same type of stones.

Jesus built His church in the first century (Matthew 16:18). Two millennia later the world is full of denominations that are very different from the church Jesus built. People have used their own plans and their own stones to establish thousands of denominations according to their own liking and for their own glory.

Churches of Christ exist in all parts of the world because certain people want to be nothing more and nothing less than the church of the New Testament. They must endure much criticism, however, from those who call this an impossible dream, an unattainable objective, an impracticable ideal.

Can we be the church of the New Testament? Why not, if we use the original building plans and the same stones, if we follow the pattern of the New Testament?

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